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post," that amy goodman is the journalist as an invited guest. why the like that? >> guest: we are not supposed to be a party to any party. we are journalists. we -- there is a reason why -- reaped -- reason why our profession is the only one explicitly protected by the constitution. reassembles to be its second balance on power. >> host: in that book also, that is the role of the media in a democratic society. provide a forum for this discourse. to do anything less is a disservice to the servicemen and service women of this country. >> guest: i just flew in from denver beat. we flew into the airport, a denver -- had been brought up that is where people hold up signs and i was literally walking. there were some soldiers there. when we walked by they were waiting. i thought maybe it general was behind me because they have a sign for the general. and it did not look that way. went to baggage. you know what, i'm going to go back and talk to them. we went back. do you watch democracy now? and visit every day. really? why? put is objective and you cov
post," that amy goodman is the journalist as an invited guest. why the like that? >> guest: we are not supposed to be a party to any party. we are journalists. we -- there is a reason why -- reaped -- reason why our profession is the only one explicitly protected by the constitution. reassembles to be its second balance on power. >> host: in that book also, that is the role of the media in a democratic society. provide a forum for this discourse. to do anything less is a...
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. >> up next, author and journalist amy goodman. the most executive producer of international radio program democracy now, talks about war, politics, and grassroots activism. "the new york times" best selling author has written or cowritten five books, including "the exception to the rulers, standing up to the madness, and the silenced majority. >> host: amy goodman in your first book in the exception to the rulers, you write that amy goodman is the journalist as uninvited guest. >> guest: we're not supposed to be a part to any party. we are journalists. there's a reason why our profession, journalism, is the only one explicitly protected by the u.s. constitution. we're post to be the check and balance on power. >> host: in that book also, war and peace, life and death, that is the role of the media in a democratic society to provide a forum for this discourse to do anything less is a disservice to the servicemen and service wal-mart of this country. >> guest: that's right. i have just glen in from denver, where i was at the nationa
. >> up next, author and journalist amy goodman. the most executive producer of international radio program democracy now, talks about war, politics, and grassroots activism. "the new york times" best selling author has written or cowritten five books, including "the exception to the rulers, standing up to the madness, and the silenced majority. >> host: amy goodman in your first book in the exception to the rulers, you write that amy goodman is the journalist as...
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let's hear from amy goodman. thanks for calling in. >> guest: well, i don't know enough about the haarp project. i know it involves manipulation of weather, and you're -- this is something i'll look into. >> host: but ron pinchback? >> guest: he was the former manager of wpfw. democracy now was on the station before ron was general manager, but i haven't spoken to him recently. but if he's watching, hi, ron. [laughter] >> host: jeff is in long beach, california. jeff, please go ahead. >> caller: hi, amy. >> guest: hi. >> caller: hi. i've listened to democracy now for several years now, i'm a big admirerrer of your work. i just have three questions for you. first, you know, i often tell by friends and coworkers about democracy now, and i've repeatedly gotten or heard the same thing from people who consider themselves to be progressive and that is they're concerned democracy now is leftist and has an agenda, and i assume you've encountered this as well, and i wonder how you responded to it and how i could do the sa
let's hear from amy goodman. thanks for calling in. >> guest: well, i don't know enough about the haarp project. i know it involves manipulation of weather, and you're -- this is something i'll look into. >> host: but ron pinchback? >> guest: he was the former manager of wpfw. democracy now was on the station before ron was general manager, but i haven't spoken to him recently. but if he's watching, hi, ron. [laughter] >> host: jeff is in long beach, california. jeff,...
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i'm amy goodman. u.s. officials say intelligence indicates the regime of syrian president bashar al-assad has used deadly chemical weapons in its conflict with rebel fighters. the announcement raises the prospect of more direct u.s. intervention in syria since president obama has referred to the use of such weapons as a game changer. but the white house says the current information is not conclusive enough to spur action. defense secretary chuck hagel described the findings thursday. >> u.s. intelligence community assesses with some degree of during confidence the syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in syria. specifically, the chemical agent sarin. we still have some uncertainties about what was used, what kind of chemical was used -- who was using it. >> chuck hagel's remarks came a day after he agree but similar claims made by the israeli government about chemical weapons used by the syrian regime. in iraq, some 190 people have died in four days of violence, clashes began tuesday whe
i'm amy goodman. u.s. officials say intelligence indicates the regime of syrian president bashar al-assad has used deadly chemical weapons in its conflict with rebel fighters. the announcement raises the prospect of more direct u.s. intervention in syria since president obama has referred to the use of such weapons as a game changer. but the white house says the current information is not conclusive enough to spur action. defense secretary chuck hagel described the findings thursday. >>...
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i'm amy goodman. at least three people are dead and 144 wounded, 17 of them critically, after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the boston marathon on monday. and 8-year-old boy is among the dead. the blast took place about 100 yards apart in the heart of downtown boston. most of the 23,000 runners had finished the race when the bombings occurred. but the streets were still packed with runners and spectators cheering them on. no suspects have been arrested or identified, and no one has claimed responsibility for the attacked but police reportedly searched a residence in the city of revere on monday night. this is boston police commissioner ed davis. >> i would like to offer my sympathies to the victims and families of this horrendous event. this cowardly act will not be taken in stride. we will turn every rock over to find the people responsible for this. the boston police department is on the scene and has been since the incident happened. there has been a horrendous loss of life. at least t
i'm amy goodman. at least three people are dead and 144 wounded, 17 of them critically, after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the boston marathon on monday. and 8-year-old boy is among the dead. the blast took place about 100 yards apart in the heart of downtown boston. most of the 23,000 runners had finished the race when the bombings occurred. but the streets were still packed with runners and spectators cheering them on. no suspects have been arrested or identified, and no one has...
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. >> amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets, in depth, three hours live sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> actually it's significant. it has been preserved all these years. at one point there were probably about 30-40 of these mounds around the salt river valley. and only a couple of them have survived. most of the mounds were much smaller, about a third to a quarter of the size of mesa grande a, and it's this man that survived also, pueblo grande a. a lot of those were destroyed and these survived. it is offered as an opportunity to learn about their lifestyle, and hopefully learn something about how complex their social and political organization was. i've always thought with archaeology, one of the great things when the archaeology is that when we look into the past and see what people did, like building the canal systems, a gauge of hope for the future. because if they could do this in the desert with digging sticks, what is it we can't do speak was this weekend booktv and american history tv with a history of the to read life of mesa, ar
. >> amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets, in depth, three hours live sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> actually it's significant. it has been preserved all these years. at one point there were probably about 30-40 of these mounds around the salt river valley. and only a couple of them have survived. most of the mounds were much smaller, about a third to a quarter of the size of mesa grande a, and it's this man that survived also, pueblo...
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you know peter amy goodman said something at the conference that was very poignant she said this is no longer a mainstream media it's an extreme media beating the drums for war those who are not concerned about the planet those who are concerned about the planet scuse me are not a fringe minority not even a silent majority but as silenced majority silence by the corporate media which is why we have to take it back and we can and speaks of the silent majority which is a majority of people who share commonalities and in the war recent restoration of civil liberties yet i think their views are fringe because they're simply not represented across the corporate media spectrum peter how damaging is the sense of isolation to just progressing dialogue progress in general to move this country forward. well there's always a prostration when people recognize the great i mean qualities that are occurring in the decline of the working class us the breakup of unions the labor struggles people become oh what can we do and i kind of want to throw their hands up but we can certainly do a lot and many p
you know peter amy goodman said something at the conference that was very poignant she said this is no longer a mainstream media it's an extreme media beating the drums for war those who are not concerned about the planet those who are concerned about the planet scuse me are not a fringe minority not even a silent majority but as silenced majority silence by the corporate media which is why we have to take it back and we can and speaks of the silent majority which is a majority of people who...
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goodman show democracy now after nine eleven i remember seeing a lockie on t.v. in the united states because he was an at a very large mosque in virginia and he was profiled in the washington post and i had wanted to book him on our show because what he was doing was he was denouncing the nine eleven attacks and saying that al qaeda had heard of the religion of islam but also talking about the struggles facing many muslims in the united states remember that sort of campaign of fear mongering that took place in the rounding up of muslims and the opening of course of guantanamo and there were vigilante attacks against not only muslims but also sikhs and other people that that that whose religion. that many people ignorantly assumed to be that of muslims and so businesses were attacked and others in amara locky was really an articulate guy in describing what the situation was like for many muslims in the united states and so i he was already on my radar and then i didn't hear anything about him until two thousand and nine when major nidal hasan walked into the fort
goodman show democracy now after nine eleven i remember seeing a lockie on t.v. in the united states because he was an at a very large mosque in virginia and he was profiled in the washington post and i had wanted to book him on our show because what he was doing was he was denouncing the nine eleven attacks and saying that al qaeda had heard of the religion of islam but also talking about the struggles facing many muslims in the united states remember that sort of campaign of fear mongering...
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. >> author, host and executive producer of democracy now, amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets "in depth" sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> people always like to ask me how did you, how did you come across this story. people always ask writer withs that. and what happens a lot of times is you find a news story while you're supposed to be working on something else, which can be a little frustrating at times, and that's exactly what happened to me. i was doing a little internet research one day, and just look at this photo. this is the photo i came across. and it was on a department of energy web site. and they had put up a little newsletter for one of the department of energy facilities, and this news leapter was saying -- letterd' was saying, u know, this month in oakridge history, something along those lines. this one i looed because there seemed to be that vanishing point at the end of the room, and i hooked at these machines with these dials and knobs, and also the women just looked so lovely x they've got the nice posture, and the little 19
. >> author, host and executive producer of democracy now, amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets "in depth" sunday at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> people always like to ask me how did you, how did you come across this story. people always ask writer withs that. and what happens a lot of times is you find a news story while you're supposed to be working on something else, which can be a little frustrating at times, and that's exactly...
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. >> author, host, and executive producer of democracy now, amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets. three hours live sunday at noon astern on book tv. >> where is the predictability in judge bork? what are the assurances that this committee and the senate has as to where you'll be given the background and the history? >> as a teenager and into my early 20s i was a socialist hardly seems to me to indicate fundamental instability. because as winston churchill i think it was said any man who is not a socialist before he is 40 has no heart. any man who is a socialist after he's 40 has no head. and i think that kind of evolution is very common in people. >> those two characters that you saw, one was the einstein of the law, and the other as i call him the einstein of the senate. you had two trains passing in the night. specter was one of the toughest, hardest senators to lobby on anything let alone supreme court nominees. he did his homework. he studied. bork, on the other hand, was a brilliant -- he was smarter than rehnquist in a lot of ways. a brilliant judge and
. >> author, host, and executive producer of democracy now, amy goodman taking your calls, e-mails, facebook comments and tweets. three hours live sunday at noon astern on book tv. >> where is the predictability in judge bork? what are the assurances that this committee and the senate has as to where you'll be given the background and the history? >> as a teenager and into my early 20s i was a socialist hardly seems to me to indicate fundamental instability. because as winston...
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. >> amy goodman taking your calls and e-mails and tweets. three hours live at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> the transportation security administration faces lawsuits over its air airport screening procedures this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. i am jim harper, director of information policy studies here at the cato institute. i'm so pleased to welcome you here today to talk about all of the ways that the government infringes on travel. we only talk about the major ways that they do. so today will be to different but related issues of the government and travel. first, we will hear from edward hasbrouck. when i saw him give this presentation at the brennan center for justice a few months ago, i thought, more people need to see and understand the intimate travel surveillance that the government conducts over all of us, law abiding citizens when we try to run the country where the world. we will have a full presentation from edward hasbrouck regarding his research, which i think is very interesting and very conc
. >> amy goodman taking your calls and e-mails and tweets. three hours live at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> the transportation security administration faces lawsuits over its air airport screening procedures this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. i am jim harper, director of information policy studies here at the cato institute. i'm so pleased to welcome you here today to talk about all of the ways that the government infringes on travel. we...
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. >> author and executive user of democracy now, amy goodman, taking your calls and e-mails and tweets, three hours live sunday at noon eastern on book tv on c-span two. >> citigroup chairman michael o'neill said some of his top concerns include gridlock in washington, the european economy and cybersecurity. the can at the annual export bank conference in washington, annual speaking at the export bank conference in washington, d.c. this is about 25 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome [indiscernible] [applause] >> i can get used to this, you know? thank you for joining us this morning. i learned a lot yesterday. i learned about latin america, mexico. regions for strong growth. one of the big innovations we might have with the data and how that might affect marketing decisions and how it can make better decisions on how to target efforts. i heard from a small business panel talking about the importance of social media, twitter, things like that. the twitter feed and qr -- you have a smart phone. i hope you will download the program. we will do all of our surveys online. that
. >> author and executive user of democracy now, amy goodman, taking your calls and e-mails and tweets, three hours live sunday at noon eastern on book tv on c-span two. >> citigroup chairman michael o'neill said some of his top concerns include gridlock in washington, the european economy and cybersecurity. the can at the annual export bank conference in washington, annual speaking at the export bank conference in washington, d.c. this is about 25 minutes. >> ladies and...
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. >> amy goodman your calls, e-mail, facebook comments and tweets "in depth" three hours live on sunday on c- span2. , "in their documentary poverty, america's untold crisis," frank bouton and jason economic impact on the u.s.. >> frequently called the most cosmopolitan city of the midwest, detroit today stands at the threshold of a bright new future, one rich with the promise of fulfillment. . since then,965 things have drastically changed. detroit's once positive outlook has been crushed by economic collapse. city is facinge numerous complications, touch as inadequate education, high crime rate, and high implement. it affects detroit and america as a whole. it is also the issue that is most often ignored -- poverty. >> we had an infrastructure that look like a diamond. now it looks more like a pyramid. >> the poor is getting poor. sooner or later, the request will not exist. >> properties the new american norm. >> that is 50 million people living in substandard conditions. the nation is facing its highest level of poverty since 1983. how can the obama administration save america from
. >> amy goodman your calls, e-mail, facebook comments and tweets "in depth" three hours live on sunday on c- span2. , "in their documentary poverty, america's untold crisis," frank bouton and jason economic impact on the u.s.. >> frequently called the most cosmopolitan city of the midwest, detroit today stands at the threshold of a bright new future, one rich with the promise of fulfillment. . since then,965 things have drastically changed. detroit's once...
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and executivet, producer of " team democracy now," amy goodman taking your calls, females, and tweets life today at noon eastern on the " book tv." valerie jarrett offers advice to women climbing the professional ladder. it is about an hour. >> thank you for being here. i will tell you a couple of things before we dive right then. full disclosure, valerie and i used to work together. we work on the first obama presidential campaign. now i get a chance to ask the questions i have always wanted to ask. the white house office of public engagements, a very important office of the president richie's head on the council of women and girls. she is a senior official in many capacities in the city of chicago and was the chief executive officer of the habitat company. she also was a lawyer and is practicing in a couple of law firms. and that's the very top positions in the white house. one of the most senior roles ever played by any woman in a white house. let's start there with that very issue. everybody is so interested in the white house. influential person in the president's staff. you are
and executivet, producer of " team democracy now," amy goodman taking your calls, females, and tweets life today at noon eastern on the " book tv." valerie jarrett offers advice to women climbing the professional ladder. it is about an hour. >> thank you for being here. i will tell you a couple of things before we dive right then. full disclosure, valerie and i used to work together. we work on the first obama presidential campaign. now i get a chance to ask the...
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. >> author, host and executive producer of "democracy now," amy goodman. "in-depth" three hours on sunday at noon eastern on the tv on c- span two. 2. on book tv on c-span two congressman asa hutchinson presented the national school shooter report here in washington dc. his comments are about 45 minutes. >> good morning. i am asa hutchinson, director of the national school shield task force and i welcome you to this important presentation of our national effort to increase school safety. last december, i received a call from the nra who asked if i would be interested in doing something, leading a national effort on school safety. we arrived at an agreement, which is my mandate and the agreement is that we would have full independence, that we would not have any preconceived condition or predetermined outcomes, and thirdly that we would have the full support that we needed to employ the experts to develop a review of our national efforts on school safety and to make the recommendations that we believe this -- we believe as exports is appropriate. i'm here t
. >> author, host and executive producer of "democracy now," amy goodman. "in-depth" three hours on sunday at noon eastern on the tv on c- span two. 2. on book tv on c-span two congressman asa hutchinson presented the national school shooter report here in washington dc. his comments are about 45 minutes. >> good morning. i am asa hutchinson, director of the national school shield task force and i welcome you to this important presentation of our national effort...